On December 19, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 8,605,794, owned and asserted by VL Collective IP LLC, a VideoLabs Inc. entity. The '794 patent is generally directed to synchronizing data segments and references MPEG1 and has been asserted against Starz Entertainment and Amazon. This IPR filing is part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

View district court litigations by VL Collective IP. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj of Haynes and Boone, LLP and by in-house counsel, Ellyar Barazesh and Roshan Mansinghani.